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Computational approaches offer exciting opportunities for us to do social science differently. This beginner’s guide discusses a range of computational methods and how to use them to study the problems and questions you want to research. It assumes no knowledge of programming, offering step-by-step guidance for codi...

This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of available techniques and approaches to explore large social media corpora, using as an illustrative case study the Coronavirus Twitter corpus. First, the author describes in detail a number of methods, strategies, and tools that can be used to access, manage, ...

'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with live...

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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africaーspaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead resear...

From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times. Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI t...

This book provides a global and thematic examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism, and a critical analysis of thinking in the area of archaeology-based tourism. It focuses on the differences and similarities between archaeology-based tourism and heritage tourism and highlights the interdepend...

This open access book aims at discussing the manifold consequences that the War against Ukraine bears for the European Union and EU Studies. It takes stock of the fact that the Russian Attack on Ukraine and the ensuing War not only affects the Global Order, but also has challenged a number of established narratives ...

LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR **'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship and repression . . . compelling' Daily Telegraph 'A timely read . . . Chilling . . . Startling . . . A powerful case...

Wie lernen KI-Modelle? Wie sorgen Entwickler dafür, dass KI nicht außer Kontrolle gerät? Verlieren bald alle wegen KI ihre Jobs? Und was sind die Gründe für den plötzlichen KI-Boom? Künstliche Intelligenz ist in aller Munde. Während auf der einen Seite Untergangsängste geschürt werden, beschwört die andere Seite ein...

**傳統經濟學思維告訴我們：「工作即謀生！」 但本書要你跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面理解工作的意義！ ★★《人類大歷史》作者哈拉瑞盛讚！★★ 原始社會物資匱乏，人類祖先卻能悠間過活，每週只要工作15小時？ 反觀現代社會技術發達，我們卻加班過勞、甚至害怕被未來AI取代！ 是人類主宰工作，還是工作支配了生活？ 大量湧現的工作真...

This open access book aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to 3D documentation from a practical perspective and formulate the most important areas for future developments. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, examples of best practice approaches, workflows, and first attempts to esta...

First published in 1932 Land and Labour in China is an introductory volume dealing with certain aspects of economic life in China. R. H. Tawney discusses important themes ranging from rural framework, problems of the peasant to the growth of capitalist industry in China

台灣民俗文化深刻而多元，是這塊富饒之島的靈魂所在。 台灣的今昔演變，你知道多少? 平時路過的一間間廟又是在拜哪些神明？ 那些我們過於習以為常的習俗背後有哪些典故？ 生活在這片土地上的多樣族群的傳統、信仰、節慶和習俗。你是否想過這些民俗習慣又是從何而來呢？本書以輕鬆的插畫搭配淺白的文字敘述，精選介紹這塊島嶼的婚喪喜慶、風水...

This book offers a broad perspective of revolutionary territorial politics by putting secession in the context of other forms of revolutionary territorial politics. This allows for a more complex and profound account of secession and offers the reader a conceptual approach to politics of revolutionary discontent wit...